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The Pioneer Party Line
Hatabel Hyer discusses her oral history project, which she named the Pioneer Party Line, reminiscent of the old multiparty telephone lines residents used to share. She elaborates on the topic and shares anecdotes from her personal life as well as...
Organizations
Central Florida Negro Edition - Orlando Sentinel
The Central Florida Negro Edition, a weekly supplement to the Monday Orlando Sentinel, included numerous photographs of individuals, students, organization and church members from the Central Florida Area and beyond.
On page 72 in her book, Black America Serie...
People
The Community Feeling of College Park - Josephine Huggins
Artist Josephine Huggins shares what she enjoys most about living in College Park in this interview conducted on May 8, 2012.
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Jo Huggins came to...
People
Jenkins Dolive
Thomas Jenkins Dolive ("doe-leave") was born in Orlando February 27, 1890 and interviewed in December of 1971 by Hatabel Hyer. He was well known to many in Orlando as were his parents and siblings. According to Eve Bacon's Orlando: A...
Places
Dr. Patz on Computers at the Cape
Working at the Cape you get to do a lot of different kinds of stuff. I remember... an ocean group that was part of the Cape and they said, "You know these capacitors could explode." Of course, they didn't know...
Places
Chapel Prayer Card Reunites Friends
When David Black stuck a prayer card in the chapel wall at the last service in the Stephen L. Rusk Memorial Chapel, he didn't expect his old friend John Moore to find it.
The card was left in the chapel wall in...
People
Katie Bell Demps
Mrs. Demps was known as the oldest woman in Zellwood at the time of this recording, a title she questions (in part two.) "Oldest [child care] provider in Zellwood" she readily boasts! This interview was conducted in 1976 for the...
People
Rev. Dr. Marshall C. Dendy and wife, Nan
Dr. Marshall C. Dendy was senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Orlando from June 1, 1942 to December 1952.
Dr. Dendy and his wife, Nan, were interviewed on July 12, 1976 by James R. Spence for the Friends of...
People
Corbett Dodd
Basil Corbett Dodd started his own dairy business in Goldenrod at the age of 17 and served as a Seminole County commissioner for over a dozen years. Born on February 2, 1907, Mr. Dodd's parents moved to central Florida in...
People
Corbin Sarchet
VIEW - Library officials and local dignitaries gather at the West Oaks Branch Library & Genealogy Center to dedicate a plaque to Colonel Corbin Marquand Sarchett, III in honor and recognition of his decades-long support for the Orange County Library...
Places
Postcard Key to Steeple's Past and Future
ABOVE: The Post Chapel at Orlando Air Base, located in tropical garden environs is unique in that it is the only chapel in the entire army that has its steeple on the ground and to the side of the chapel....
Places
Stephen L. Rusk Memorial Chapel Steeple Makes News
Community engages as World Ware II chapel steeple is moved from its historic location on the old Army Air Base, Orlando Naval Training Center, to Thornton Park in downtown Orlando.
Read The Orlando Sentinel articles detailing John Moore's efforts to relocate...
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